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Re: Schools

annga — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:05:05 -0000

halo syg

Re: What We’re All About

annga — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:00:30 -0000

halo

Re: What We’re All About

ChrisE — Sat, 11 May 2013 09:57:14 -0000

Some people reading this might not know what peer to peer means. Here is
a Wikipedia entry explaining it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Re: How We Make the Glue (Without Getting Sticky)

mozzadrella — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:47:33 -0000

Hey Mick, Dirk actually brought up that we should explore the community more in this post, and I had some more thinking to do on it--thanks for bring ing it up :)

I'd say this is less a template and more an observation of our norms and values--which I see community members enact and embody every day.

P2PU has norms and values like every group or organization, and in addition to formal learning at P2PU, folks are also learning how to be a community member--which means being open, being yourself, and being open to change.

But you're right that every choice or decision made towards engagement (using humor, playful voice and tone, etc) is a step away from total inclusivity. Usually I make the choice towards engagement because I think it's valuable, especially in learning, It's good to be reminded that there is an opportunity cost.

Re: How We Make the Glue (Without Getting Sticky)

Mick Fuzz — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 05:40:20 -0000

I can't help but like the spirit of where you, yourself, are coming from but -
(mick puts on black hat) - it could seem like you are writing a template for
p2pu community members. To formalise the freaky international fantasticness of
your community around the core staff could limit wider
participation or mere mortals. Just a thought.

BTW - I kind of love the meme of
humour as a way of excluding people, as while it seems ridiculous, there
are valid points there too. Here's a one minute interview about it.
http://audioboo.fm/boos/129908...

Re: Org

Maria Trika — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:43:39 -0000

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Re: Org

Maria Trika — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:35:09 -0000

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Re: Org

Maria Trika — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:31:36 -0000

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Re: How We Make the Glue (Without Getting Sticky)

Alan — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:36:52 -0000

Love it Vanessa! Thanks for putting words to what we're all feeling. This reminds me of something that a BBC journalist who was covering MOOCs back in December said, that "those things that a screen cannot offer – community, tuition, interpersonal dialogue, shared space and time – are only going to feel more precious amid the increasingly rich educational pickings online." Enter P2PU, stage left. Yay P2PU!

Re: People

disqus_FxTLJoIfEp — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 01:43:23 -0000

Re: Analytics and The Art of Learning

disqus_FxTLJoIfEp — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 01:23:49 -0000

I also am a teacher, in the Los Angeles school system, who believes that we need to focus more on teaching our students to evaluate internally and externally, making them the principle of meaurement, instead of the fruitless subject of the justification of our ineptitude. tom.carter12@yahoo.com

Re: What We’re All About

Gn Hub — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 03:43:09 -0000

hmm thanks for details.

arjun
http://www.gnhub.com

Re: The Accessible P2PU Course

Billy Meinke — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:33:07 -0000

I agree that accessibility is something we should all be thinking about when developing courses on P2PU. Speaking of ADA compliance, I bet there is an exhaustive set of high-level guidelines that could be adapted into easy-to-grasp blog posts like Leah knows how to write so well. That said, I'm with the others as far as including all content that supports what people are learning, not necessarily excluding content based on a lack of accessibility. We should be looking to increase awareness of what makes digital media more accessible (like Leah's done here) and make a conscious effort to include transcripts with video, alt tags with images (not sure how to do with the current markdown editor), etc when building course content.

Thanks for adapting and posting this. Right on.

Re: The Accessible P2PU Course

Philipp Schmidt — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:34:07 -0000

Yes, these are *recommendations* to make resources more accessible. While we would love to have more videos be truly accessible, and think it's worth pushing in that direction, there is absolutely no intention to exclude videos that lack captions or transcripts. Also good to explore what options exist that are feasible for volunteer contributors who don't have the resources to hire grad students. And maybe we should make this sentence at the top more prominent? "Here are my recommendations for creating an accessible course on P2PU."

Re: The Accessible P2PU Course

Stian Håklev — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:02:07 -0000

I think it's great to focus more on accessibility on P2PU, however I was a bit mystified by this statement: "Folks, your audio clips and videos MUST HAVE TRANSCRIPTS OR CLOSED CAPTIONS. That’s all there is too it."

Leah suggests getting a grad student to do it or hiring a transcription agency. However most of the people designing courses at P2PU are volunteers who cannot command such resources. There is an incredible richness of lectures and videos out there, and I think that categorically refusing to include them if they do not include transcripts/subtitles would be going too far. Of course - if they do have them, that's wonderful, and if there are ways in which the P2PU community can help make them more accessible - such as crowd-sourcing transcription etc, that would also be great.

Re: Travel & Learning

Philipp Schmidt — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:19:53 -0000

I agree that there is a opportunity in combining the two. But I am worried that by aiming for the middle, we'll end up on the measuring-what-we-can end of the spectrum, because it has such strong pull from both the policy and the industry sides. I feel it's time for a stronger statement around the ideals and vision for learning, that may even side-step the question of assessment at least initially. As an aside I believe everyone starts out ready for the open-ended journey, but may get less ready as a result of formal schooling.

Re: Open Masters program

Vicky Harinski — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:29:27 -0000

cool

Re: Travel & Learning

@foregone — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:05:43 -0000

Interesting analogy Phillip, certainly a brand new take. As someone who celebrates the open-ended journey I underscore your vision, but as someone who wants to help take learning to those who aren't able to go on a journey just yet, I hope there's another, more creative middle path for structured online learning. Not so much a choice or a dichotomy but a merging of the two. Wishful thinking?

Re: What We’re All About

Wan chai — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:39:09 -0000

Doohttp://creativecommons.org/...

Re: Get Feedback on a Project You Love: P2PU Launches a New Version of Badges

mozzadrella — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:04:21 -0000

Thanks Danny! I'll check out accredible.

Re: UX Testing

Jonathan — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:44:09 -0000

thanks for sharing... very insightful

Re: Get Feedback on a Project You Love: P2PU Launches a New Version of Badges

Danny King — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:01:18 -0000

Very cool - I really like this! I think it's a very novel way to think about issuing badges. It's quite similar in its goals (although for a different purpose) to http://www.accredible.com (my project) which tries to achieve the same thing but for MOOC end of course certificates based on a portfolio of work done as a part of the course, rather than specific skills or achievements. I'll watch this space, nice work!

Re: Get Feedback on a Project You Love: P2PU Launches a New Version of Badges

mozzadrella — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:16:10 -0000

Hey Leah, I responded on the list, but I'll post it here too so folks can see the answers:

Q: CONNECTING BADGE TO COURSE

A: That is part of our "phase 2"--but it's a pretty light integration (Badge embeds as iframe, directs users to the particular URL on badges.p2pu.org)

Interim solution for now/proposed hack:
After you create a Badge, you can direct folks to it from your P2PU course via hyperlink.

Folks can use their P2PU accounts to apply for your Badge.

You should have all the functionality you need :)

Q: EDITING A BADGE

A: Since you can publish your Badge *immediately* and folks can apply for it, we didn't want folks applying for Badge A when the criteria were X, and then different folks applying for Badge A when the criteria were Y. As such, we made the following design decisions:

-To create an extensive warning copy page and the functionality ability to save and come back later (the draft Badge will be in your profile).

-Make Badge creation super-easy so if you want to make a different, better Badge that more accurately reflects the learning project, you can.

Make sense?

Thanks Leah!

Re: Get Feedback on a Project You Love: P2PU Launches a New Version of Badges

Leah MacVie — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:22:49 -0000

LOVE LOVE LOVE!! I just uploaded the badge for Badges 102 and now the only think I am stuck on is how to actually connect it to the course. I will follow up in the forum...perhaps there is something I am missing or it is still beta. I am also not sure how to edit the data/badge once it is created. Thanks!

Re: Get Involved

pj070 — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:46:49 -0000

come back to school